Also with T-Mo (albeit in Northern Nevada). The only carrier with consistent coverage outside of the "major" cities is Verizon. However, going between L.A., Vegas, and Phoenix I haven't had a problem with T-Mobile's "4G" coverage. The problems are on Highway 95, thankfully there are several very helpful brothels along the way. A few summers ago I was making the trek and had to stop at one when my car's radiators decided that it no longer needed fluid.
I'd say it was less of an export and more of a trade. After all, we got the musical stylings of William Shatner, Celine Dion, Jusin Bieber, Nickelback, and Rush. If I were Canada I wouldn't want any of them in my public domain either.
What happened to that Canada I remember, huh? The country to took in draft dodgers during Vietnam? The country that instituted universal healthcare? The country where "liberal" wasn't an insult? The country that wasn't afraid to zig when the U.S. zagged?
You've changed, man.
Amen. Although, in a certain light this may be a good thing. As a United Statsian, I've observed that my own clinically insane government tends to want to distance itself from our northern cousins, maybe (albeit not bloody likely) we'll start to pare back copyright to a more reasonable level. On the other hand, we may simply up the ante and make copyright eleventy billion years. But even that may not be a bad thing, the more ridiculous copyright is, the more people will ignore it. Even right now the average person on the street doesn't see a ethical problem with consuming media that was illegally distributed.
Not everything that is immoral is illegal, and not everything that is illegal is immoral.
I gave a very similar argument to a CEO at a company I was consulting on in the construction of a small datacenter. He wanted all Apple servers because he was sold on the ecosystem. After explaining to him that they also have a track record of abandoning their corporate customers, I was given the okay to deploy an almost completely Linux rack (they have one Exchange server). Like everything else it's a matter of the right tool for the job. I'm not sure if I'd ever trust Google Docs for a business, but in fairness Microsoft is pushing just as hard with their Office Online apps. I will say that Google Docs was quite useful in my last year as an undergrad and in grad school as a colaboration platform.
They'll die, but they'll go kicking, screaming, and destroying as many people as they can along the way. Kinda reminds me of a schoolyard bully, they have no problem fighting people as individuals, but as soon as those people band together the dinosaurs call foul.
The U.S. (and possibly the U.K.) is the only country that will utterly destroy a person's life (financially that is) for a non-commercial download. Of the Western nations are concerned about copyright and imaginary property laws, lord knows we've ceased being competitive at much else. What we want/need is a modicum of perspective when enforcing the laws. Downloading something illegally should be seen as a speeding ticket, not a lifetime as a pauper.
I've seen this a lot out of the Fox News crowd. I don't like X, and I don't like Y, therefore X == Y. Observe: I don't like me some Communism, I don't like Muslims, therefore Muslims are as bad as Commies. Pull yourself out of the Cold War. The only reason Capitalism has won out is that human greed is much easier to predict than human compassion.
This American has an F-150 and I spent several hours last week towing smaller cars out of a snow drift. The gas mileage isn't great, but it has 4 wheel drive and can haul a decent amount. For a recent home buyer it's a godsend. I have my small fuel-efficient car for most types of travel. But when the snow piles up or I need to move something (or somebody else needs me to), I'm damned glad that I have that truck. Use the right tool for the job.
You may actually be the dumbest person I've ever seen post here. Please take you fanatic, jingoistic hatred for any political stance that you disagree with and post it to Fox News. They welcome loud mouth bigots with open arms...you may even get you own talk show out of it!
In my case, the Xoom was "bricked" and given to me as a gift. While I was undoing the damage I went ahead and rooted it. Without rooting you can still sideload apps (to me the deal-maker). Really, the only benefit I get from rooting is blocking ads at the hosts level.
ConnectBot combined with VPN is usually good enough for my needs, worst case I have a chroot Debian installed on an SD card. The VNC interface is a little clunky at times but having a full-fledged desktop on a free tablet has saved my bacon on two occasions.
I have samba and sftp out-of-the-box with any number of file explorer apps both free and paid. The same goes for VNC. i* devices are without a doubt, prettier and more responsive. I have to give credit where it's due. If Apple would trust us enough to let us sideload apps and give us access to the bootloader (granted only HTC will be doing this), I'd most likely have an iPad right now. As it stands my en route Transformer Prime is simply a better fit.
If you have to use the term "jailbreak" in order to get desired functionality out of a device then there is something very wrong. I'd love for my parents to get an iPad, it would cut my support calls down immensely. I have my rooted Xoom that does a heck of a lot more than any i* device. It isn't pretty and it doesn't have nearly as many apps, but it allows me to sideload and develop on my Linux machine, two major deal-breakers for me purchasing an Apple product. Both sides have their obnoxious uber-fans and that is a shame. I'll continue using the best tool for the job at hand, if in 2 years that becomes an Apple device, that will be the route that I go. No devotion, no brand loyalty, just pragmatism.
I love watching American Football through an Australian feed. The commentators are more well informed than their American counterparts and the commercials aren't nearly as obnoxious. I do agree with you about sports needing to be streamed live. It's a money cow waiting to be milked.
When I was in College Station we used to make a pilgrimage at least once a month to the Drafthouse. It has made every other theater experience pale in comparison.
I've got a better idea, how about Congress gives every active user of/. a measly $50,000 or so and we all go buy ourselves a shiny terrorist-repelling rock. It would probably be just as effective.
I'd prefer the rock! It wouldn't grope or irradiate me, and if something really went down I could at least chuck it at somebody.
I've always been happy with HTC and took it as a given that I'd have to find some way to unlock the bootloader on my own (thank you, XDA!). I figured that if a company ever trusted me enough to give me that kind of access on a competitive product I'd purchase my next phone through them. I don't think this will mean a whole lot more business for HTC, but it will make the existing ones much happier.
There were also laws in the books prohibiting alcohol, interracial marriages, and homosexuality. Not every illegal action is unethical, and not every unethical act is illegal.
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I'm more afraid of the US government than I am of any terrorists.
As a U.S. citizen, I no longer see a distinction between the two.
Also with T-Mo (albeit in Northern Nevada). The only carrier with consistent coverage outside of the "major" cities is Verizon. However, going between L.A., Vegas, and Phoenix I haven't had a problem with T-Mobile's "4G" coverage. The problems are on Highway 95, thankfully there are several very helpful brothels along the way. A few summers ago I was making the trek and had to stop at one when my car's radiators decided that it no longer needed fluid.
Like putting too much air into a balloon!
I'd say it was less of an export and more of a trade. After all, we got the musical stylings of William Shatner, Celine Dion, Jusin Bieber, Nickelback, and Rush. If I were Canada I wouldn't want any of them in my public domain either.
What happened to that Canada I remember, huh? The country to took in draft dodgers during Vietnam? The country that instituted universal healthcare? The country where "liberal" wasn't an insult? The country that wasn't afraid to zig when the U.S. zagged?
You've changed, man.
Amen. Although, in a certain light this may be a good thing. As a United Statsian, I've observed that my own clinically insane government tends to want to distance itself from our northern cousins, maybe (albeit not bloody likely) we'll start to pare back copyright to a more reasonable level. On the other hand, we may simply up the ante and make copyright eleventy billion years. But even that may not be a bad thing, the more ridiculous copyright is, the more people will ignore it. Even right now the average person on the street doesn't see a ethical problem with consuming media that was illegally distributed. Not everything that is immoral is illegal, and not everything that is illegal is immoral.
I gave a very similar argument to a CEO at a company I was consulting on in the construction of a small datacenter. He wanted all Apple servers because he was sold on the ecosystem. After explaining to him that they also have a track record of abandoning their corporate customers, I was given the okay to deploy an almost completely Linux rack (they have one Exchange server). Like everything else it's a matter of the right tool for the job. I'm not sure if I'd ever trust Google Docs for a business, but in fairness Microsoft is pushing just as hard with their Office Online apps. I will say that Google Docs was quite useful in my last year as an undergrad and in grad school as a colaboration platform.
They'll die, but they'll go kicking, screaming, and destroying as many people as they can along the way. Kinda reminds me of a schoolyard bully, they have no problem fighting people as individuals, but as soon as those people band together the dinosaurs call foul.
The U.S. (and possibly the U.K.) is the only country that will utterly destroy a person's life (financially that is) for a non-commercial download. Of the Western nations are concerned about copyright and imaginary property laws, lord knows we've ceased being competitive at much else. What we want/need is a modicum of perspective when enforcing the laws. Downloading something illegally should be seen as a speeding ticket, not a lifetime as a pauper.
I've seen this a lot out of the Fox News crowd. I don't like X, and I don't like Y, therefore X == Y. Observe: I don't like me some Communism, I don't like Muslims, therefore Muslims are as bad as Commies. Pull yourself out of the Cold War. The only reason Capitalism has won out is that human greed is much easier to predict than human compassion.
This American has an F-150 and I spent several hours last week towing smaller cars out of a snow drift. The gas mileage isn't great, but it has 4 wheel drive and can haul a decent amount. For a recent home buyer it's a godsend. I have my small fuel-efficient car for most types of travel. But when the snow piles up or I need to move something (or somebody else needs me to), I'm damned glad that I have that truck. Use the right tool for the job.
And $500 is barely enough to tip a typical Apple user's caddy's chauffeur.
All while snorting mountains of cocaine off of dead hookers, because why not? Can't make it any worse...
I always wondered what led to the creation of the Holiday Special.
You may actually be the dumbest person I've ever seen post here. Please take you fanatic, jingoistic hatred for any political stance that you disagree with and post it to Fox News. They welcome loud mouth bigots with open arms...you may even get you own talk show out of it!
It's probably a bunch of guys sitting around, trying to "one up" each other on who can get the most outrageous patent.
I sense a new drinking game!
In my case, the Xoom was "bricked" and given to me as a gift. While I was undoing the damage I went ahead and rooted it. Without rooting you can still sideload apps (to me the deal-maker). Really, the only benefit I get from rooting is blocking ads at the hosts level.
ConnectBot combined with VPN is usually good enough for my needs, worst case I have a chroot Debian installed on an SD card. The VNC interface is a little clunky at times but having a full-fledged desktop on a free tablet has saved my bacon on two occasions.
I have samba and sftp out-of-the-box with any number of file explorer apps both free and paid. The same goes for VNC. i* devices are without a doubt, prettier and more responsive. I have to give credit where it's due. If Apple would trust us enough to let us sideload apps and give us access to the bootloader (granted only HTC will be doing this), I'd most likely have an iPad right now. As it stands my en route Transformer Prime is simply a better fit.
If you have to use the term "jailbreak" in order to get desired functionality out of a device then there is something very wrong. I'd love for my parents to get an iPad, it would cut my support calls down immensely. I have my rooted Xoom that does a heck of a lot more than any i* device. It isn't pretty and it doesn't have nearly as many apps, but it allows me to sideload and develop on my Linux machine, two major deal-breakers for me purchasing an Apple product. Both sides have their obnoxious uber-fans and that is a shame. I'll continue using the best tool for the job at hand, if in 2 years that becomes an Apple device, that will be the route that I go. No devotion, no brand loyalty, just pragmatism.
Perhaps donating some money will Sweden the pot?
I love watching American Football through an Australian feed. The commentators are more well informed than their American counterparts and the commercials aren't nearly as obnoxious. I do agree with you about sports needing to be streamed live. It's a money cow waiting to be milked.
That's fine. I won't quote you and I'll compose my own post.
With blackjack and hookers!
When I was in College Station we used to make a pilgrimage at least once a month to the Drafthouse. It has made every other theater experience pale in comparison.
I've got a better idea, how about Congress gives every active user of /. a measly $50,000 or so and we all go buy ourselves a shiny terrorist-repelling rock. It would probably be just as effective.
I'd prefer the rock! It wouldn't grope or irradiate me, and if something really went down I could at least chuck it at somebody.
It's starting to feel like that's the only way.
I've always been happy with HTC and took it as a given that I'd have to find some way to unlock the bootloader on my own (thank you, XDA!). I figured that if a company ever trusted me enough to give me that kind of access on a competitive product I'd purchase my next phone through them. I don't think this will mean a whole lot more business for HTC, but it will make the existing ones much happier.
Please don't popularize that, I truly don't want to see "wwebsite" get into the English dictionary as our newest verb.
There were also laws in the books prohibiting alcohol, interracial marriages, and homosexuality. Not every illegal action is unethical, and not every unethical act is illegal.